7 AM. FINAL L wFA6 i 7 A.M. FINAL Latest Deadline in the State VOL. LIX, No. 37 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 3, 1948 PRICE FIVE CENTS I I 4b Williams Leads Sigler in State Dewey Lagging Ferguson Ahead) We Still Don't Know Who It Is In Close Race In Senate Contest Other Republican Safe as Derns Rely State Candidates on Detroit Vote DETROIT-WI)--'The race for Governor in Michigan turned into a slugging match in outstate counties today, but Democrats in Wayne (Detroit) County are holding back their Sunday punch. With 707 precincts of the state's 4,292 counted Williams led 169,- 633 to 163,665. * * * * U.S. SENATOR Homer Ferguson, Republican seeking reelection, did better than his other Republican brethren, except Dewey. He was holding a growing lead over the Democrat, former Cong. Frank E. Hook of Ironwood. With 549 precincts reprting, Ferguson had 146,091 and Hook 109,960. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, who lost Michigan to President Roosevelt tfour years ago by 22,476 votes,-to- "Republicans ,Ahead 241 In Ann. Arbor Incumbents Lead In City, County Voters of Ann Arbor and Wash- tenaw County appeared to be giv- ing incumbent Republican can- didates almost a 2-1 vote of con- fidence early this morning on the basis of incomplete returns from the city and county. With each successive precinct report, the GOP county slate continued to pull further away and assure that their 80 year reign in the county would not be broken. PROGRESSIVE PARTY candi- dates received only handfuls of scattered votes as citizens con- centrated their attention on either of the two main parties. Minor parties received virtually nothing from 7 of 48 precincts reporting. Leading the field was Repub- lican John L. Osborn for Sher- iff with 7176 to 3662 lead over Democrat Joe E. Beeler. Leading in the face for county clerk, incumbent Republican Lu- ella Smith had 7122 to 3850 for Democrat Thomas C. Walsh, Uni- versity student. CORONER Edwin C. Ganzhorn, Republican, virtually assured him- self of victory with 6957 to 4006 for Democrat William H. Dickson, Sr. Republican candidate for Coun- ty Treasurer William F. Verner led 6925 to 3740 for William H. Kemnitz, Democrat. Incumbent Republican Allan A Seymour appeared to be as- sured of contining at the post ,of Registrar of Deeds with 6819 to 4309 for Democrat Katherine E. Swope. In the race for State Senator, Republican George N. Higgins is leading Democrat Odin H. John- son 6757 to 3957. * * * PROSECUTOR Douglas K. Reading, Republican held a much narrower lead over his opponent Democrat George J. Burke, Jr., 6409 to 4522. n the fight for the job of Rep- resentative in the State Legisla- inr_ T.QmiR C7 r~hrist~men. inrom- day had a lead of 83,000 votes over President Truman with less than a third of the state's precincts counted unofficially. DEWEY was amassing his lead in upstate Michigan in a strong bid for the state's 19 electoral votes. He was leading in all but a handful of industrial counties, but one of these was populous Wayne County where the Demo- cratic labor alliance was expected to produce big results for Truman. Only 120 of the 1,672 Wayne County precincts had reported but those had been enough to push Truman to within a few thousand votes of Dewey at that point. Then the outstate areas pushed Dewey along again. Sigler, the Republican bellweth- er, was coming from behind in outstate counts so slowly that his followers feared he could not off- set an expected heavy Democratic majority in Wayne County. Wayne County, expected to cast its second highest vote in history, was far behind the rest of the state in counting its ballots, throwing the guberna- torial race results out of focus. Sigler was almost neck and neck at that point with G. Mennen Williams, the young socialite lib- eral who ran on the Democratic ticket. WITH 1,100 precincts heard from Sigler had 248,985 to 256,949 for Williams. The count included 200 of Wayne County's 1,672 pre- cincts. While Sigler was trailing, the remainder of the state Republican ticket, handpicked by the Gover- nor, was maintaining about a 30,- 000 vote lead over its Democratic counterpartand in these totals the proportion of Wayne County votes was higher. This bore out politicians' spec- ulations that many Republicans would "cut" Sigler in the secrecy of the ballot place. * * * WASHTENAW County and Ann Arbor remained solidly in the Re- publican columns as far as state officials were concerned. Gov. Kim Sigler ran a few votes behind the rest of the GOP slate, but every candidate was virtually assured a very firm 2- 1 margin. Sigler received 11,259 votes from 20 of 48 county precincts report- ing, to G. Mennen William's 7,- 227. Republican Eugene C. Keys ap- peared to be winning his fight to retain the office of Lieut. Gov- ernor by a 10,338 to 6,377 vote. IN BRIEF, othertvotes were: Secretary of State-Republican Frederick M. Alger, Jr., 11,945 to 5,809 for Noel P. Fox, Democrat. U.S. Senator-Republican Hom- Ctsountry Waitsfor Last Ballot By HARRIET FRIEDMAN Truman or Dewey? At 5:30 a.m., as The Daily goes to press, it will take the last ballot to find out. Some commentators, have compared the situation to that in 1916, when the Presidency changed hands in the early hours of the morn- ing. But unlike Charles E. Hughes, whose misfortune it was to go to bed as President, and awaken as just another citizen, no one in the country who was following elections, went to sleep with security this morning. There were 60-1 odds for Dewey in New York yesterday. Deweyj supporters all over the country couldn't find anyone to take their bets. And in Ann Arbor, the typical comment was: '"It'll all be over by 10 p.m." But no one counted on an election turnout which kept the Ann Arbor polls busy till almost midnight. And even more, no one counted on the effectiveness of one man's lone-handed campaign for re-instatement in office against the prac- tically unanimous opposition of the American press, plus the loss of votes to Thurmond and Wallace. When the results first began to come in, showing Truman in the lead most listeners felt that the results were merely from typically Democratic industrial centers. But as the vote returns reached 48% and Truman still led in pop- ular votes, unbelieving audiences in party headquarters, and in dormi- tories and fraternities, blinked incredulously and caught the excite- ment. Radio commentators, especially the pollsters, were slow to become aroused. They carefully discounted the early results, but gradually became more aroused as the "every last vote counts" nature of the elections became obvious. One high point of the returns came in the fight over New York. Truman, who probably lost more than 50,000 votes to Wallace, made Dewey breathe happily for every up-state vote he could gather, and the combined forces of Truman and Wallace easily over-balanced Dewey's take in his home state. As night turned into morning, Republicans began to pinch them- selves and wonder whether it was all a bad dream. One Senate seat after another, and one House position after another, fell to the Demo- crats. Special all-night Republican demonstrations were indefinitely postponed. Cause for most comment as the race became tighter and tighter was the probability of presidential election by the House of Repre- sentatives. The election would be carried out by the new House, which ap- pears to be predominately Democratic, but analysts pondered the effect of the State-Rightists of the South. And although Wallace announced his continued disgust with both major parties, the Dixiecrats seemed regretful over their role as a bloc to Truman's re-accession.: But the votes were cast, and neither party was doing anw of the predicting on such future problems. Republicans and Democrats were just counting up the votes one by one. Democrats Win Senate, House; Thrilling Upsets Stun Nation Bulletin At 5:26 a.m. Truman led Dewey by a popular vote of 17,418,016 to 16,122,656. Truman was ahead in 27 states whose total electoral vote was 279, while Dewey was leading in 17 states with 214 elec- toral votes. * * * * By The Associated Press President Harry S. Truman, the astonishing underdog, clung grimly to a slender majority of the nation's electoral vote early today. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, who had been rated a sure winner in most polls, trailed behind. Truman, confounding the dopesters, topped Dewey in the popular vote also, though the contest was far from finished. Democratic legions swept close to outright control of the Senate and made marked gains in House contests. The Presidential race looked like the closest since the 277 to 254 Wilson-Hughes struggle of 1916--and the possibility even arose that no one would get a majority of the electoral tally. In that case, the showdown would come in the next House of Representatives, with each state casting one vote to choose the Pres- ident, (Washtenaw County and Ann Arbor tossed their support to Dewey by well over a two-to-one margin although he ran slightly behind local Republican candidates for office.) Dewey was running 6,694 to 3,197 in Ann Arbor and 11,772 to 5,147 in the county vote. Of 48 county precincts, 20 had reported.) AT ROUGHLY THE HALFWAY mark son the long road toward final compilation of 50,000,000 or more ballots, this was the national picture: President Truman had the lead in 27 states with a total electoral vote of 267. (266 needed for the final tally to elect). Governor Dewey, trying for the second time to win the Pres- idency for the Republicans, was ahead in 17 states (including New York as almost a certainty) having a total of 226 electoral votes. States Rights Democrats accounted for the other four states. The anti-Truman votes in those four normally Democratic states (Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Alabama) might have historic results. Should neither Truman nor Dewey get a majority of electoral votes (266), the choice of the President would be up to a vote of the House of Representatives-where each state would haya one vote. * * * * IN SUCH AN EVENT, States Rights candidate Thurmond hoped to hold the balance of power. The States Rights movement was born of protest against Truman's civil rights program. Democrats elected three Senators out of the 11 Senate races regarded as critical in the battle to control the Senate, and its chairmanships. The Democrats were leading, too, in the other eight. In the races for Governor, Democrats elected nine and were lead- ing in 12. Republicans had elected three and were leading in two. The Presidential totals, at least for the time being, ran contrary to most pre-election guesses of a sweeping Republican victory. REPUBLICAN campaign managers toned down their victory pre- dictions as the night wore on. However, apparent victory in New York state, set off new GOP claims. The Democrats were restrained, but hopeful. There was no word yet from either Gov. Dewey, in New York or President Truman, in Missouri. Mr. Truman "disappeared" from his home in Independence, Mo~ where he announced he would spend the night. Aides kept silent on where he might be getting the returns. For. themselves, they reported growing optimilsm. NEW YORK, with its big bloc of 47 electoral votes, switched back and forth. When all but 20 of the Empire State's 9,959 districts had been tallied, Dewey led Truman by 27,000 votes. Pennsylvania (35 electoral votes) recorded a consistent lead for Dewey and appeared safe for the Republicans. Truman took a lead in Illinois, and Democratic leaders there said that its 28 votes were safely in the Democratic column. Ohio and California, with 25 electoral votes each, were showing Dewey in the lead. Thus most of the biggest states were recording at least temporary leads for the Republican candidate, and Mr. Truman's 2 a.m. EST lead in the electoral totals was made the hard way-through many states, some with few votes. TRUMAN ALSO MANAGED to pile up his early morning lead despite the apparent loss of four Southern states to the States' Rights ticket. The Progressive Party of Henry A. Wallace had no state in its enhi.my hint tC New Vnrk d mtea nennh *t h the haei'eo nf I MAY COME THROUGH IN '52! Vote Embarrasses Pollsters By B. S. BROWN Science was set back twelve years in yesterday's presidential election. The poll takers claimed that they could predict the outcome of the election within five per cent, based on scientifically-controlled samples of the population. But in this 1948 election Gov. Thomas E. Dewey failed to smother his Dem- ocratic rival with the expected avalanche of popular votes. IN THE Literary Digest straw vote fiasco 12 years ago, Alf Lan- don was indicated as the over- whelming favorite. President Franklin D. Roosevelt not only won the election, but carried 46 states in doing so and completely swept the popular vote. Once main the n nters are gan State, Oregon, Purdue and Northwestern, Minnesota and Il- linois. After that the Irish men- tor quit. * * *' THE NOTED pollster indicated that part of the reason, in his es- timation, why Truman was run- ning far ahead of the poll's find- ings was that the President was being carried along by the Demo- cratic candidates in the various lo- cales. He pointed out such out- standing examples as G. Men- nen Williams, gubernatorial candidate in Michigan, Mayor Hubert Humphrey, candidate for governor in Minnesota, and Chester Bowles, who won the governorship in Connecticut un- der the Democratic banner. His reasoning was that the vot- ers wanted the local candidates and then merely tagged along with Truman on the Democratic ticket. AS FAR as the Congressional voting is concerned, there was no explanation offered. Consensus in many circles this morning indicated that Roper and the rest would have done far bet- ter in their prognostications had they heeded the optimistic state- ments of the President from Mis- souri, who had to be shown. He's about the only one who called his shot, and did it with any degree of accuracy. NO HOT TIME IN ANN ARBOR: City Spends Peaceful Election Night --7- The amount of election whoop- ee in Ann Arbor last night andI and doughnuts. The Young Re- nn,,lC frnm th A rTTniverCity I ening, but found no refreshments